2.2: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life Among the Piutes (1883)

Paired Sources from U.S. History, 1877-present
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Abstract

The Northern Paiute tribe once controlled what is now northern Nevada and eastern California. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, a chief’s daughter, was an activist who wanted both to draw attention to the plight of her people and to tell the story of white/Native American relations from the perspective of the Native Americans. This excerpt from her book Life Among the Piutes [sic] is a long quote from a chief named Egan describing the broken promises that the Northern Paiute faced on reservations in 1878.

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